Choose the edition before the upload
A public-domain story can reach you inside an edition with its own terms. Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain; Project Gutenberg's licence covers its trademark; Wikisource's contributions are under CC BY-SA. As of 2026-09-25.
Modern editions add more: introductions, notes, corrected text, translations. Those additions can be protected even when the story is not.
An adaptation built from the author's words, not an editor's additions, keeps the question simple.
Note which edition was used, with its source, before anything is uploaded.
| Source | Covers | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Ebooks | Basis | Texts and cover art believed to be in the U.S. public domain |
| Standard Ebooks | Library terms | Its own work dedicated to the public domain, so each ebook file is public domain |
| Project Gutenberg | Library terms | Its licence also governs use of the Project Gutenberg trademark |
| Wikisource | Library terms | Contributions released under CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL |
Inclusion rule. Readings from the three registers used on this page. Order. The order the text takes them in.
1In the sources' words
The text and cover art in our ebooks are already believed to be in the U.S. public domain
Standard Ebooks, about page
Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing the entirety of each ebook file into the public domain.
Standard Ebooks, about page
the use of the Project Gutenberg trademark
Project Gutenberg, license page
Unless otherwise noted, all user contributions to Wikisource are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikisource, copyright policy
- AboutTexts and cover art believed to be in the U.S. public domain
- AboutIts own work dedicated to the public domain, so each ebook file is public domain
- License explainedIts licence also governs use of the Project Gutenberg trademark
- PolicyContributions released under CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL
Filed under: Standard Ebooks · Project Gutenberg · Wikisource
2Turning the book into episodes
Once the rights in “Choose the edition before the upload” are settled, SceneMixer describes the adaptation itself like this:
SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.
SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (read 2026-10-13)
That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.
SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)